 | William Shakespeare, Charles John Kean - Promptbooks - 1846 - 76 pages
...Faulc. Oh ! let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. — This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud...corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. [Organ Music. — All gather round... | |
 | Deborah T. Curren-Aquino - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 220 pages
...sustained borrowing in Shakespeare's text), the Bastard pronounces the lesson of Tudor homilies: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud...conqueror. But when it first did help to wound itself. .... Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true! (5.7.112-18) This signifies closure.... | |
 | A. J. Hoenselaars - Drama - 1992 - 366 pages
...reference to other, foreign nations is conveyed in Faulconbridge's famous lines that end the history: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud...make us rue If England to itself do rest but true! 19 His conditional "if" is appropriate, pointing back as it does to the preceding period of complex... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...BASTARD. O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. — This For that Joh 3 naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. [Exeunt. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW DRAMATIS... | |
 | Lars Magnusson - Commerce - 1997 - 264 pages
...native labour, and native energy, enterprise, and intellect, fair play and then in industry, as in arms: Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. Commerce is merely the handmaid of industry. The proper sphere of commerce is to distribute industrial... | |
 | Jean Elizabeth Howard, Phyllis Rackin - Electronic books - 1997 - 276 pages
...true subjection everlastingly" (104—5) to the new king and proclaiming the jingoistic moral: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud...conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Nought shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true. (V.vii.112-18) As many critics have... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...Shakespeare. His quotations included 'the never-to-beforgotten words' which close King John ('This England, never did, nor never shall, / Lie at the...conqueror, / But when it first did help to wound itself), the 'imperishable' praise of England from the lips of the dying John of Gaunt in Richard II, and a... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - Drama - 2000 - 172 pages
...son, he sounds less like the selfish Edmond than like the prophetic John of Gaunt in Richard II: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud...conqueror But when it first did help to wound itself Naught shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true. (5. 7. 112-14, 117-18) It's a rousing... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 pages
...famous by their birth. Ac. Add the famous passage in King John : — This England never did, nor ever shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when...corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. And it certainly seems that Shakspeare's... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...scares) : O let us pay the time but needful woe. Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This England never did, nor never shall Lie at the proud...wound itself. Now these her princes are come home Faulconbridge, Robert Ferdinand, King of Navarre again, Come the three corners of the world in arms,... | |
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This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall... 
